六四 廿一 後記

我二十一年來的第二次參加的六四聚會（去年是第一次，因我八九年十月離港後很少於夏天在港）。去年我是下午急急的坐動車組從廣州回來，入場是已經很晚。這回有點空閒時間，於是從記利佐治街 行人專用區進入。路上滿是街頭藝術家的表演藝術。血、六四等是重複的主題。不少人也和我一樣拍了照片，希望民眾的行動和反思不此是停留在“留下紀念”的層面上。

La deuxième fois dans 21 ans que j'ai occasion de participer la commémoration du massacre à Carré Tiananmen le 4 juin 1989 où des milliers d'étudiants, de travaillers, de concitoyens ont perdu leurs vies aux feux de l'armé chinoise. Comme j'avais un peu de temps supplémentaire cette année, je me suis promenadé sur Great George Street. Cette zone piétonnière a été prise par les artistes dan la rue qui l'ont transformé aux théâtres en plein air. Le seul endroit en Chine continentale où on peut manifester ouvertement bien que les pressions politiques ne cessent à menacer la liberté civile. Une goutte de confort dedans le dessert - la présence de participants était la plus forte que jamais pendant cette histoire de 21 ans.



你能忘記站在坦克前的無名英雄嗎？ 還有扶持死傷者的人？
Can you ever forget the man standing in front a roll of tanks? Or those who carried the dead or wounded on their shoulders?


天安門母親 The Tiananmen mothers


民主女神像 Goddess of democracy


我們不應忘記 we should never forget


血染六四（三之一）bloody June 4th (1 of 3)


血染六四（三之二） bloody June 4th (2 of 3)


血染六四（三之三）bloody June 4th (3 of 3)


death certificate 死亡證


口號 slogans


紀念碑 memorial


平反六四堅持到底 the eternal fight for vindication of the June 4th student movement


candlelight 燭光

The militant artwork or performances leading the way into Victoria Park were eery, morbid and not rated PG-13. After all, why should we feel comfortable if we haven't righted our wrongs? If there was any consolation to the big business and government's unfortunate and "move-on" attitude towards this bloody and sad saga in modern Chinese history, it belonged to the 100 000 plus strong people who overfilled the streets leading to as well as inside Victoria Park.

國際歌在香港

五月十四號晚上陰差陽錯下我走進為五月十六日五區公投的的造勢大會,本想留幾分鐘變成看完整個聚會。意外的是尾聲播放的國際歌。在非社會主義下成長的我第一次聽到國際歌是1989年北京的學運，那次運動的結果是好是壞不用我多說了。如果我秉承近來迷信的作風來看這公投運動，那這次國際歌的再現對前景是不樂觀的。然而陳方安生，李柱銘，甚至我一般沒甚麽感覺的宗教團體--天主教的已退休的陳日君樞機都在選舉那天出來支持，那投了票的五十多萬“少眾”並不是太孤單的。

造勢大會當晚播了宣傳片《十八仝人撐公投》 (短片見下)。其中有本地香港人可能不留意到，但在內地人氣比香港高很多的時事、文化評論員--梁文道也參與廣告演出。希望他不會消失在鳳凰衛視吧，有良知、肯承擔的人雖不是鳳毛麟角，也不至於俯拾皆是。

最後要一提的是向政務司長唐英年說政府高官不投票是壞榜樣的庇理羅士女子中學吳美蘭老師。官校（即政府學校）的老師能這樣有骨氣，不是月薪比她高十倍的高官能雙題並論的。當吳老師說“我要有權選特首”時，在場的學生掌聲雷動，這大概是最好的安慰! Neil Postman 說過 Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. 兒童是我們送往我們看不見的未來的口訊。年輕人未被蒙蔽，未來還有希望。

汶川兩週年

今天汶川兩週年。去年我有機會看過艾曉明教授的
《我們的娃娃》 和 《公民調查》。這兩齣劇能提供關於汶川地震的資料比所有主流媒體還要多。



今年的五一勞動節是草根的血汗建給有財有勢的國際博覽會開幕；今年的五四是溫家寶在馴服了的北大作秀。2008有汶川和奧運，2010有玉樹和世博，迷信的我希望多些人能看和反思艾曉明教授的紀錄片裡的信息，希望《公民調查》裡譚作人快點從獲自由。

拗直你 str8en u out

早幾天說狄娜，大家知否她有一個已變性(女變男)的兒子？無聊的我搜索一下後，驚訝地發現香港竟有一個由“前同性戀” 輔導員提供給專業輔導人員的講座。在一些國家已認同同性婚姻和社會運動對跨性別/變性者更關注的時候，香港竟來過大倒退。負責這講座的亞洲專業輔導協會和背後的香港樹仁大學真令我失望。更可笑的亞洲專業輔導協會的網站標明其使命是：

帶領輔導專業發展，成為一個在香港以至亞太地區輔導專業的領導團體，被社會人士、各地政府都確認為執業輔導員的具權威性協會。

若果他們不毒害新一代的輔導員和同志便以德高無量了。
這不禁令我想起二十世紀初美國冷泉港實驗室(Cold Sping Harbor Laboratory)曾經是優生學(Eugenics)的重鎮。優生學是甚麼，想想第二次世界大戰的希特勒和猶太人吧。從優生學到國際一流的生物、醫學實驗室是180度的大轉變。終有一天這些無聊的治療會被廢止，但先必在別的“前衛”社會面前貽笑大方而後榮。唉，這些搞治療的“專家”真羞家！也許這些專家們應先向香港小童群益會取經。

If you need another reason why Hong Kong is not quite an international city, all it takes is a workshop by a counselor with "ex-gay" connection with Exodus International delivering training to in-service and future counselors on the "crisis" of being gay. The sponsor of this workshop, Asian Professional Counselling Association (APCA), has a mission:

to be the leading professional body for counselling in Hong Kong and to be recognized by the public and the government as the definitive association for counsellors practicing in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Region.

When country after country are legalising same-sex marriage, and, the social justice movement of LGBT people has been returning the spotlight to the INjustice still plaguing transgender, transvestites, gender non-conforming or the pansexual members of the community, APCA is on the path to raise Hong Kong's status as a laughing-stock for other progressive societies.

Given enough time, these kind of radiculous therapies will be obsolete. My worry is that they will be around to "harm" another generation of LGBTs and counselors as well before subsiding. My 2 cents to the "professionals" - read up on Michel Foucault's Histoire de la sexualité or the cultural construct nature of gender before dispensing nocive advices please! Perhaps it's the APCA and company whom need to be str8en out.

綠色和平 和 雀巢 之戰 Greenpeace dénonce Nestlé

中國大陸和臺灣的報紙和網站對 綠色和平組織 (Greenpeace) 針對雀巢 (Nestlé)的Kit Kat 巧克力餅乾於三月份發動的社交媒體攻勢皆有報道，唯獨是香港的媒體隻字不提。這間接地告訴大家香港的環保意識比不上大陸和臺灣。亞洲國際都會還要擴大她的視野。

這有創意但亦“核突”(廣東話的惡心)的短片會令你改變消費模式嗎？

Une campagne de vidéo virale de Greenpeace contre Kit Kat de Nestlé a vraiment pertubé cette dernière et a généré assez de buzz dans des médias variés, même ceux de la Chine continentale et de Taïwan. Néanmois, les journaux ou sites web hongkongais restent plutôt silencieux. Cela vous dit quelques mots de notre progrès (ou le manque de) sur la sensibilisation du public face aux enjeux environmentaux. La ville internationale en Asie doit élargir sa vision encore.

何不吃肉糜：最低工資

何不吃肉糜
很久以前看見關於贫富悬殊的文章,也提到香港沒最低工資的保障。

香港立法局的張宇人議員必定是跟從前的皇帝一樣不知民間疾苦。港幣二十元的時薪，他一定沒有看過我這張一年多前在北京拍攝到的塗鴉作品。



“廿蚊”在百物騰貴的香港不一定買到碗肉粥。

Howard Zinn 津恩

Howard Zinn passed away on Jan 28, 2010. No, my google news feed page that I open almost religiously on a daily basis did not alert me to the sad news. I was busy preparing my trip back home for Chinese New Year that I did not learn about it until more than a month and a half later when I was reading an education listserv on U. S. Government and Politics. More than ten years ago I gave colder than lukewarm response when a friend of mine recommended me his book: A People's History of the United States. My friend even xeroxed Chapter One for me. I am glad that I read it, for calling the book an eye opener to me is an understatement.

Zinn started Chapter 12 The Empire and the People with:

Theodore Roosevelt wrote to a friend in the year 1897: "In strict confidence . . . I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one."

while this paragraph from Chapter 24 The Coming Revolt of the Guards:

One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.

clearly struck a chord with me. Whether you are from the third world, or the first or industrialised world, the developing South or the developed North, rich or poor, East or West, (former and existing or defacto) colony or (part of any) declining or ascending empire, regardless of your political leanings, you are bound to relate to some, if not many of the points made in this book.


May Zinn's spirit continues like an eternal flame, under downpours or sandstorms or sunshine.
Part of A People's History of the United States can be found here. Read it for the sake of humanity!

霍華德·津恩（Howard Zinn） 離世，但當天打開谷歌新聞的網站也沒有他的消息。我是在一個多月後無意中在我訂閱的社會學的電郵裏發現。寫這博客時邊做點兒研究，驚覺中國網也有一遍關於津恩文章。驚訝是因為中國裏的一些津恩一遭關起來。如果你從沒有聽說過津恩這人的話，快找他最有名的著作《美國人民的歷史》來讀讀吧。不要用中、美兩國現在的關係的態度去看，而是以一個平民看政府、看帝國、看種族關係、看戰爭、看一般平民的聲音等等的出發點去看，你必能得到啟迪。

今天三八 womyn's day

今天三八，早兩天有幸在國際法語節和香港獨立短片及錄像比賽的聯合短片節目內看到法國導演和攝影家Agnès Varda的幾套紀錄片。Réponse de femmes (女人的回答)是她一九七五年的作品。赤裸的女體、穿衣不穿衣、生不生孩子、女性作為廣告裏的賣點、母親、丈夫、兩性關係、性、慾等等都在一連串快速的問答中提及。過去兩年我皆去了有關婦女節的講座，今年看過這短片以後不去了。這片子也提供了額外的博客寫作題材，我本來想寫的女性科學家也許要留待明年了。



Réponse de femmes, le court-métrage, pas leur réponse en général, a boulversé mon plan orginal d'une pièce sur les scientifiques féminines à l'occasion de la Journée internationale des femmes. Réalisé en 1975, cet ouvrage d'Agnès Varda a donné de paroles aux quelques femmes at a soulevé des enjeux. Malheureusement, ces derniers n'ont pas cédé leurs pertinence à l'heure actuelle. Vu d'une perspective chinoise, des montages de corps féminins nus doit être considéré choquant sinon également progressif!

International Womyn's Day... I had an idea in mind about writing on some female scientists. That would have to sit in the garage til probably next year after I incidentally went to a screening of French photographer and film director Agnès Varda's shorts including Réponse de femmes. A rapid firing of Q&As, staged as well as with random strangers on the streets highlighted many of the issues in 1975. Many of which such as women as sex objects, sexual desires, relationship between the two sexes, role as mother or wife are unfortunately still relevant today, thirty-five years later.

SIDA 愛滋病 AIDS

法國預防愛滋病機構
AIDES最新的廣告已被很多人放上網，這回的動畫又是另一次驚喜！不相信？自己看看吧! L'autre animation EXCEPTIONNELLE contre le SIDA/VIH de AIDES presents another excellent video on HIV/AIDS



Les campagnes de réduction des risques sanitaires de cet organisme nous inspire toujours. Malheursement, cet esprit ouvert nous manque encore dans plusieurs sociétés 'hypocrites' ou 'religieuses'. En tout cas, amusez-vous bien avec deux autres vidéos en dessous.

這樣減低風險(harm reduction)的策略在“保守”和講“假禮教”的社會是未能看見的。在資訊爆炸的年代，怎樣喚起和維持大眾對公眾健康議題的關注是這些社會服務和醫療機構恒久的挑戰。AIDES 的廣告皆是精心傑作，以下的兩個動畫便是好例子。

Unfortunately, this video would be considered racy in many parts of the world. Owing to cultural and religious or tons of other pretexts, "harm reduction" is still an unknown vocabulary in many public health prevention discourses. There is still a long road ahead. For the time being, enjoy the meticulous and creative talent that poured into all these AIDES campaign videos.

AIDES baby baby (straight)


AIDES sugar baby love (gay)


Live Long Enough To Find The One. Protect Yourself
活得長一點直到找到真命天子(女)。
Vivez assez longtemps pour trouvez le bon!

社運電影節: 全球時限 Horloge universelle

社運電影節: 全球時限
這電影節是我繼去年的歐盟電影節以後最大的收獲。這回看過大概十齣電影，其中最震撼非全球時限莫屬。所有關於社會公義的問題都從鏡頭另一端的訪問提及。不管是特殊教育老師、北非的移民，這些非專業演員在投入他們時光倒流的十九世紀巴黎公社內角色的同時，現實生活的二十世紀裏社會問題還是想影子般的跟我們形影不離 。時限早已過了，起義吧!

The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins by chance when I was attending one of the screenings Hong Kong

While i am not pretending to be Roger Eber, but if you watch only a film per year, this documentary should be the ONE to watch. I 've asked myself how come I 've never heard of it when I was in Canada all those years, especially I was doing NGO and community work. The camera of Geoff Bowie follows the Peter Watkins' filming of the epic La commune (Paris, 1871). The many actors who participated in Watkin's project are just ordinary folks. However, they all have stories to tell.
Resistance? What are we talking about here? The Six-hour long La Commune couldn't fit quite well into the universal clock of the buyers at MIP. For the pleasure of self-discovery, I leave the details for you to find out when you are lucky enough to see the film someday. What are the
ordinary folks resisting? Have la republic, after all those turmoil years and the various constitutional republics (now the fifth republic), rid herself of all the social injustice? The answer is more than obvious, the challenge is to raise awareness and find solutions

Horloge universelle: la résistance de Peter Watkins
comme je suis assez fier d'avoir appris de ce documentaire canadien. La mondialisation accélère l'écart economique et magnifie les problèmes sociaux. Watkins est ambitieux ou peut être suffisamment courageux à lutter les limitations dans notre société actuellement.

De quelles résistances parlant le film? La commercialisation et la standardisation des programmation de TV? Le cri pour la justice par les cocitoyens? La guerre pour l'égalité, peut-elle regrouper des gens universellement? C'est un film incontournable si vous voulez le remue-méninges.

世界愛滋病日 World AIDS Day

Le communiqué par deux organismes promouvant les droits de travailleurs du sexe nous dirige vers un des problèmes à Hong Kong avec la police et le système judiciaire. Les médias, autrement, étaient silencieux sauf un reportage sur les hommes ayant des relations sexuelles avec d’autres hommes ont encore une prévalence de VIH plus élevé que d'autres groupes.

Les liens pour les textes dans la version anglaise qui suit.

又到十二月，它的第一天是每年的愛滋病日。今年我在香港的媒體只是談到男男性接觸者的感染率持續偏高以外，沒大的新意。然而兩個性工作者權益團體紫藤和午夜藍發表的新聞稿： 有關停止把安全套成為呈堂証據的公開要求倒值得看看。

文章大致是說：
現在警方在處理賣淫場所的案件中「安全套入罪」，會使到性工作的姐仔哥仔對性工作者團體派套不表歡迎，生怕他們收到的安全套，會成為令到他們身陷囹圄的證據。
(按此閱全文)或此。

另一邊廂，高耀潔醫生要在美國發布她的新書，這對中國對抗愛滋病的問題一再發出一個警號。



1st December is World AIDS Day. Mainstream media reports in Hong Kong were few and far from front page on this day. Some newspapers ran a piece on continued high HIV prevalence in men who have sex with men (MSM). They did not report on a press release by Zi Teng and Midnight Blue, advocacy groups for sex workers. Their
A Declaration of Stopping the Use of Condoms as evidence in court
touched directly on in public health terms a harm reduction issue. Given the fact the judicial system and the police continue to use condoms as incriminating evidence of sex trade, people will resend outreach workers giving them condoms, for fear that would haunt them if they get caught by the police. Read the full press release or click here.

On a separate note, the aging Dr. Gao Yaojie had to have her book's press conference OUTSIDE of China sent another alarming signal about how China is handling this epidemic. Transpency still has a lot of room for self-improvement there.

反高鐵與媒體的報道

媒體到底有多可信呢？ 看看關於二零零九年十一月二十九號星期日的反高鐵遊行吧。
上面的報紙甲說一千多人。
下面的報紙乙說三千多......
如果是甚麼統計的錯誤，那個不對的百分比就變成十分之大咯。
三千是一千的300%，反過來一千也是三千的33%啊！任何有點兒公平的調查也不可能發生這樣的誤差！

那我們應該相信誰？


信抗議的人吧！他們沒有政府資助，幹嘛花時間在他們認為不對而且常常被抹黑的社會運動項目上？



以下是主辦團體邀請公眾人士參加遊行的公開信：

善用公帑 不要富人融合 締造公平公義社會
1129反高鐵停撥款大遊行

香港有些第一，我們不想要：
我們不想要樓價世界第一。
我們不想要貧富懸殊在已發展地區第一。
我們也不要用六百五十億，建全世界最貴的鐵路。

一條廣深港高速鐵路香港段的規劃，徹底暴露了香港特區政府的病態管治：

奉承權貴‧濫用公帑：
高鐵是奉中央和特區權貴的旨令，傾全城之力替富裕階層開路到西九龍，再以「整體利益」和「邊緣化」等說辭威脅市民埋單的騙局。26公里的高鐵造價由去年的 395億飈升至超過650億，全球最貴，也是回歸以來最大的一筆過開支。新造的跨境基建，如深圳灣大橋和落馬洲支線，客量明明遠差於估計，政府偏偏要繼續不惜工本再造一條富豪鐵路。香港有很多基本問題，如教育、醫療或基層就業都更需要這筆錢，奈何市民的聲音一直被壓制。

欺善怕惡‧劫貧濟富：
政府規劃高鐵，專挑弱勢社群做犧牲品，隱藏社會成本以減省經濟成本。在新界逼遷石崗菜園村的老人社區建車廠，在市區則強制收回大角嘴十四幢舊樓的地層，並且利用欺負弱勢的法律和制度，假資訊、假諮詢、假賠償。毀人家園、踩在弱勢頭上建高鐵，誰能昧著良心乘搭？

破壞生態‧難以持續：
政府口講可持續發展，但每屆特區政府都好大喜功，把跨境基建當政績工程，漠視香港鄉郊的可持續發展和本地農業的維護。香港的環境影響評估制度對大型基建只管開綠燈，漠視多項基建的累積環境影響。高鐵香港段為市區帶來嚴重噪音，又穿過錦田和米埔等重要農業和生態地帶，環評報告粗疏錯漏仍獲批准，令人憤怒。

行政專斷‧缺乏諮詢：
特區政府和權貴賤視市民參與權利，從沒有就高鐵規劃認真諮詢市民意見，亦沒有發放足夠資訊讓民間社會能展開多元討論。到後來，菜園村村民不甘受屈站出來抗爭，民間專業者亦努力提出預計能節省數百億元的新方案，政府不單不珍惜機會溝通，反而以宣傳機器盡力抹黑，手段卑劣。

過去一年，我們在不同的社區、不同的位置就廣深港高鐵現方案提出質疑，但政府一直充耳不聞，如今立法會財務委員會即將於十二月初審議高鐵撥款在即，我們必須集合力量，讓重視公平、公義和可持續發展的聲音更有力地傳開。零九年十一月廿九日星期日下午，我們將會舉行「反高鐵停撥款大遊行」，表達對高鐵現方案的不滿，並要求立法會財務委員會否決高鐵現方案撥款，讓社會有時間從詳計議，為600多億公帑找出更恰當的用途。

有些第一我們不想要，有些第一則要努力爭取：邀請你參加香港史上第一次挑戰跨境基建規劃的遊行，齊心奪回規劃城市未來的權利。

反高鐵停撥款大聯盟

二零零九年十一月十八日

反高鐵停撥款大遊行詳情
主辦：反高鐵停撥款大聯盟
大聯盟成員：慢慢發行動組、街坊工友服務處、社區發展陣線、社區文化關注、正言匯社、關注綜援檢討聯盟、石崗菜園村關注組、菜園村支援組、香港理工大學關社組、大專力撐菜園村聯盟、香港天主教正義和平委員會、批判地理學會、香港基督徒學會、正言匯社......正邀請更多團體加入
日期：29/11/09(日)
集合時間：下午2:00
集合地點：銅鑼灣東角道（崇光百貨門外）
路線：銅鑼灣崇光百貨 → 軒尼詩道 → 中環﹝地點容後公布﹞
聯絡：25603865﹝香港天主教正義和平委員會﹞
參與形式：參加者可帶備自己的單車、BB車、手推車、小販車、板車、輪椅、11號車(人行)，不同形式，展現城市慢慢發展的理念。
大會建議參加者穿綠色衫。

你的意見又怎樣？

驕傲做自己．同志愛出來 Be Proud Be Yourself

驕傲做自己．同志愛出來 Be Proud Be Yourself

C'était le slogan bilingue pour la deuxième parade de la fierté lesbienne, gai, bisexuel(le) et transgendre à Hong Kong. Le défilé hongkongais est petit par rapport à celui de Taipei, sans même parler de ceux de Montréal, Toronto ou New York. Néanmoins, pour une ville qui proclaime toujours 'la ville internationale en Asie', un événement nourrit un étape miniscule mais incontourable pour le mouvement social local.



香港的遊行比不上臺北，更遑論蒙特利爾，多倫多和紐約了。然而對於近年社會問題多多的香港，這是眾多的社會運動的一小步。沒有一步一步的努力，社會問題只會像在壓力煲失控時發生爆炸一樣，到時才解決便困難得多了。開句舊話的玩笑：革命尚未成功，同志們仍需努力!


With many groups from Hong Kong joining the march, which otherwise could be seen as an act of parachuting, the 2nd Hong Kong pride parade was festive and boisterous. For a city with modern external hardware and structures, but rotten, twisted, obscure, hypocritical internal ethical values, this was a hesitant, second baby step. Don't expect any great leap forward soon, but the LGBT HongKongers and their allies deserve a pat on their backs, don't you think?

從六四到七一 from June 4th to July 1st

Two anniversaries, separated by fewer than 30 days mark the slow political changes in mainland China and Hong Kong SAR.





If you are Canadian and in Hong Kong on July 1st, you are out of luck. Although the city has its retrosession day holiday off on this date, it is more often than not eclipsed by the march and demonstration for various political venting in Hong Kong. You may or may not pro-Beijing, you may or may not think the government has been trying hard to put China on the right track for a better society for all of its citizens. I hope that through the marches, the sense of right and wrong get instilled gradually, but firmly on the youths, since they are the future of this vast country, whose citizens suffered too much and the majority is still struggle for a better life.

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid" - Audre Lorde

May the words of Audre empower you!

CSR from the fresh MBAs?

Well BusinessWeek and Economist both mentioned about The MBA Oath, started by some class of 2009 Harvard Business School MBAs and spreading quite virally like the H1N1. Should I give this oath and its signatories the benefit of a doubt? The shorter version of the oath is swift and clear:

As a manager, my purpose is to serve the greater good by bringing people and resources together to create value that no single individual can build alone. Therefore I will seek a course that enhances the value my enterprise can create for society over the long term. I recognize my decisions can have far-reaching consequences that affect the well-being of individuals inside and outside my enterprise, today and in the future. As I reconcile the interests of different constituencies, I will face difficult choices.

Therefore, I promise:
I will act with utmost integrity and pursue my work in an ethical manner.
I will safeguard the interests of my shareholders, co-workers, customers, and the society in which we operate.
I will manage my enterprise in good faith, guarding against decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.
I will understand and uphold, both in letter and in spirit, the laws and contracts governing my own conduct and that of my enterprise.
I will take responsibility for my actions, and I will represent the performance and risks of my enterprise accurately and honestly.
I will develop both myself and other managers under my supervision so that the profession continues to grow and contribute to the well-being of society.
I will strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide.
I will be accountable to my peers and they will be accountable to me for living by this oath.

This oath I make freely, and upon my honor.

I wonder the people sweating and rewriting for the ISO standards on social responsibility would think about shortening and distilling everything into these few lines of texts. Conscience doesn't have to be pages and pages of extraneous guidelines, or does it? Let's hope these individuals who signed or will be signing really put their money where their mouth is. Let's hope they don't include the future incarnations of Jeffery Skillings or Dubya. Both are products of HBS, which the institution would rather you don't notice. You see, prestigious ivory tower can get us some poison ivies at times.

I keep my skeptical fingers crossed ;-).

dumspter diving 垃圾桶插水

標題其實是wikipedia的廣東譯名，但我想垃圾搜尋比較正確。一般人以為是貧窮的人才搜尋垃圾，但在一些發達國家裏一些對環保或主流消費經濟不滿的人也有參與。我在蒙特利爾（滿地可）的時候差不多參加了，可惜是自己最後膽子小沒有去。這陣子回到中國來，一個發展中國家，情況又是怎樣呢？富貧差異很大的城市如北京，我看見家樂福晚上扔掉的水果、蔬菜和麵包已可以餵飽很多人了。香港在2003年沙士(SARS)後不是聽說過有人食“二手飯”嗎？ 如果服務型行業能把過剩的食品送給慈善機構或有需要的人就好了。航空公司的頭等和商務客位的候機室提供的免費自坐餐就是一個好例子。
這裏有一個關於法國和荷蘭的垃圾搜尋，點擊看看吧：

http://skippingwaste.trashwiki.org/

(photo credit: andy54321)



Dumpster diving, a kinda hardcore environmental activity, or it could be a frugal, economical or conserving activity, depending on your state of mind and priority. Anyway, I ALMOST tried it when I was in Montreal and was introduced to the term by some radical, non-mainstream anachists cum envrionmentalists. For whatever reason I chickened out at the last minute. Perhaps I was afraid of getting my clothes dirty, yea right, a lame excuse ;-). What does it mean to you if enough people, young people especially, are dumpster diving in developed countries? Would it worry you because these young people are not having a stable income? Or, they might just be very creative and bold in terms of thinking outside the box in pursuing "shocking" or unconventional envrionmental activites? Would there be a more "hygenic" way to "recycle" or redistribute the food to people in need, given there is still a part of me worrying about food poisoning for those who dumpster dive? Click the link above for an interesting video documenting dumpster diving in action in the Netherlands and France. They even have a cheerful "dumpster dive" song to go with it!

Dumpster Diving, un terme qui n'a pas d'équivalence encore à l'heure actuelle. Il décrit les gens qui récupèrent de la nourriture et d'autres choses utiles qui ont été jetées dans la poubelle. J'avais presque eu une occasion à l'essayer mais je ne l'ai pas expérimenté encore. Qu'en pensez-vous? Est-ce que c'est trise si les jeunes doivent dumpster dive à survivre? Ou ils nous montrent un modèle de vie alternative, écologique et durable? Et la saleté vous dérange? Il y a quand même une chanson dans la vidéo, cliquez le lien au-dessus pour la visionner.

六四二十週年 20e anniversaire du 4 juin

六四二十周年，我是感觸良多的。為甚麼？皆因不少犧牲的學生都是和我差不多年紀的！二十年前我在維多利亞公園看見民主女神雕像的複製品,今年我希望在維園參加燭光晚會。近日網上發佈的文章不少，例如(明報)2009年6月3日 星期三
王丹﹕到維園去！——致香港大學生的第三封公開信（全文如下）

【明報專訊】各位香港大學生朋友：6月4日，這個紀念六四事件20周年的日子即將來到了。我謹以一個學長和八九民運當事人的身分呼籲各位：6月4日這一天的晚上，讓我們穿上白色的衣服，到維園去！去參加支聯會舉辦的燭光晚會！

20年過去了，六四遇難者的冤魂仍未得到昭雪，當年跟你們一樣的大學生如今已經將近中年，但是中國的民主化似乎還有很長的距離。20年過去了，大屠殺的責任者——中共及其政府——不僅沒有承認當年的罪行並予以補償，反而繼續堅持鎮壓的立場；更為嚴重的是，在金融海嘯襲擊全球的今天，所謂的「北京模式」開始逐漸得到部分國人甚至部分世界的認同，而這種「北京模式」的價值基礎是如此的邪惡，那就是：為了經濟發展，人類社會可以犧牲一切其他價值，甚至人的生命。這樣的價值觀如果得到推廣繁殖，我們將要生活的世界將是一個沒有基本的是非標準和倫理價值的世界。

因此，今天紀念六四20周年，已經不僅僅是回顧和緬懷過去一段已經發生的事情，幾天的紀念具有深刻的現實含義。我們是要接受以「北京模式」為代表的價值觀？還是通過反思六四，為未來中國的發展尋找一條更加健康的建立在公理正義基礎上的道路？

八九民運精神 由你們傳承下去

在六四事件20周年之際，我個人有一個深深的感觸，那就是，我們面臨一個非常緊迫的任務，那就是讓八九民運的精神，讓六四事件的真相，能夠經由你們這樣的年輕一代傳承下去。由於內地長期的信息封鎖和當下嚴酷的政治環境，我們無法苛求國內的年輕一代完成上述的歷史使命，因此，這樣的歷史使命，你們，香港的年輕一代，責無旁貸。因為畢竟在香港，你們還擁有相對的言論自由空間，你們還享有基本的示威遊行的公民權利。20年來，香港維園的點點燭光延續了八九民運的精神，也維護了中國人追求民主的理想和在世人面前的尊嚴。未來的20年，這樣的理想是否還能延續，維園的燭光是否能夠繼續閃耀，就要看你們的了。

今天的香港的命運，已經與大陸的命運緊密聯接。內地是否能夠逐漸走向民主，還是會繼續維持一黨專制的「北京模式」，與各位的切身利益息息相關。1989年六四屠殺給我們一個深刻的教訓，那就是，只要這個政權的性質沒有改變，不管表現得如何良好，它是隨時可以展現國家暴力兇殘的一面的。這個教訓，我希望你們能夠從歷史中汲取。為了防止未來的可能的國家暴力侵害到你們自己，行動起來，到維園去，向北京當局展現你們的民意。告訴他們，儘管他們20年來處心積慮地試圖抹殺歷史，但是你們沒有忘記；告訴他們，雖然今天已經有經濟發展，但是一個只有經濟增長，沒有社會公正和道義基礎的社會，並不是你們對中國未來的期待；告訴他們，中國人有享受民主與人權的權利和資格，這樣的追求永遠不會停止；告訴他們，只要六四事件還沒有翻案，這樣的北京當局就不配做中國人的代表。

各位學弟學妹，人的一生，如果在完成個人的成就的基礎上，還能對我們所處的社會有一點影響，這樣的人生才是精彩的人生。今天，中國的命運，多少會受到你們的行動的影響，我再次呼籲你們，不要放棄自己的權利和歷史機遇。到維園去，讓北京當局看到你們的力量，讓千萬盞燭光照耀中國的未來，告慰死難的英雄們。6月4日這一天，我們原來的八九民運的參與者會在美國首都華盛頓舉辦大規模的「重新集結，再次出發」的活動，我們都高度期待在電視上，可以看到維園的人群中，有更多的屬於你們的年輕的面龐！請你們給我們希望！

et pour le mot "officiel" c'est presque inexistant sauf qu'un article titré:
Evolution of Chinese intellectuals' thought over two decades
you probably think the article sidestepped a lot of issues and did not really address the "incident", one of the sanitised terms to describe the "event". I have faith the massacre will be faced and brought to the public eye and the demonstrators vindicated. I hope any Chinese people with conscience will prevent anything resembling this tragedy twenty years ago from happening again. China has suffered enough and definitely does not need more bloodshed and drama on its people. Nous gardons notre espoir!

5-1 Fête du travail, Labour Day, 勞動節

勞動節，其實應該是一般勞工放假的日子，但是我在北京看見那超市裏賣東西的小妹們或是辛勤地工作。那最應該放假的都不放了，而是像銀行家等的“大粒佬”big shots放了家.......這世界就是那麼不公平的了。 從今年開始清明和端午等節日也是法定假期，但是有多少底下階層可以受惠呢？更遑論如塗鴉裏畫的加薪了！


La fête du travail, un jour férié mais pour qui? Les ouvriers gagnant les moins salaires ne peuvent pas en profiter. Par contre, les dirigeants des grandes entreprises ont leur journée du golf ou quoi que ce soir. On vit dans un monde plein de dilemme, n'est-ce pas?

Many countries observed Labour Day, including China. However, those at the bottom of the social ladder often have to work on this holiday, while the executives at multi-nationals enjoy their long weekend getaway. Isn't the world full of dilemma?

Cocalero

A film watched as part of the Hispanic month organised at Hong Kong university. The oldest university in Hong Kong seems to develop its School of Modern Languages and Cultures slowly, thought the latter is still in a relatively primitive stage. As a former British Crown colony, English takes on the role, in a the paradoxical way, as one of the official languages as well as the defacto foreign language well. Nevertheless, screening like this does open the door for its students studying languages and foreign cultures. However it will take more than a few of these cultural activities for its students to get a better grasp of their target areas of studies.
Now going back to the film Cocalero, it follows the election campaign of Evo Morales, an indigenous candidate running against the big guy and the big corporations for the presidency of Bolivia. Whether it was rally at major metropolitan cities, or reaching out indigenous and working class populations to get out the vote and literally EDUCATING them how to vote, so as to avoid invalid ballots. It was exciting and nerve-racking. As of March 2009, I was told all but two countries in South America (Peru and Colombia if I am not mistaken) have left-leaning governments. Bravo to them!

sanguinolent metaphor

I really dunno what the photographer, designer, advertising agent etc. were thinking when they created this billboard ad, seen in Central, Hong Kong. The first thing, and still to this day remains the ONLY dominating metaphor I could think of is blood splashing out of the guy's chest! Yikes, not something you would associate with an art gallery, eh? Would you really? Or am I just a little bit haywired with my pensée? No, to answer the questions you did not even ask: I don't like the NRA and the average person's safety in the US of A is jeopardised as a result of theirs and other related lobbies. I standby the bloody first impression I got of this advertisement.


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